Answer the following questions. 1. Who is responsible for public education in the US?

1. Who is responsible for public education in the US?

2. At what age do American children go to school?

3. Till what age is education compulsory?

4. What are the three schools which comprise secondary education?

5. What subjects do schoolchildren learn?

6. What are the most popular foreign languages in the US?

7. What do the Americans consider most important for schoolchildren?

8. What kinds of higher educational institutions are there in the US?

9. What other schools and higher educational institutions besides public ones are there in the US?

Are the following sentences true or false?

1. Education is provided to all children from the age 5 to 19 in the school system.

2. Education is compulsory until the age of 19.

3. The usual plan for dividing schools is: 6 years of elementary school, 3 years of junior high, 3 years of high school, but this plan may be different in different states.

4. History and geology are taught as one subject, and literature is taught in classes of English.

5. Schoolchildren can learn one foreign language for 2 years (Spanish, German, English or French).

6. There is emphasis on science, mathematics and foreign languages and the knowledge of other peoples and cultures.

7. State colleges and universities provide six years of higher education necessary to receive a bachelor’s degree.